it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the major daily product of the intelligence community for the president s for them to be wrong about that stuff is worrying on its face but there s a larger point to this. their explanation for why the president doesn t need this daily intelligence briefing is because it s just raw data, nothing he can really use and besides he s got this guy and this is the guy who makes sense of the intelligence world for the president. this general mike flynn, the national security advisor. he, the white house keeps telling us, he is the one who briefs the president everyday. he tells the president what the president needs to know. forget the briefers from the intelligence community.
presidential daily brief. we looked into this question specifically. we talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us the president s daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence community s experts assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb have long been analytic assessments, not merely raw data. so when the white house says it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to
we talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us the president s daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence community s experts assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb have long been analytic assessments, not merely raw data. so when the white house says it s just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it s not just raw data. it s a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the